Bill Text: MI SB0759 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Natural resources; hunting; prohibition on person holding a fur dealer's license from holding a license to trap beaver; remove. Amends sec. 42501 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.42501).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-06-12 - Assigned Pa 0160'14 With Immediate Effect [SB0759 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SB0759-Chaptered.html
Act No. 160
Public Acts of 2014
Approved by the Governor
June 11, 2014
Filed with the Secretary of State
June 11, 2014
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 11, 2014
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Introduced by Senator Casperson
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 759
AN ACT to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “An act to protect the environment and natural resources of the state; to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify laws relating to the environment and natural resources of the state; to regulate the discharge of certain substances into the environment; to regulate the use of certain lands, waters, and other natural resources of the state; to protect the people’s right to hunt and fish; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials; to provide for certain charges, fees, assessments, and donations; to provide certain appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 42501 (MCL 324.42501), as amended by 2004 PA 325.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 42501. (1) A person shall not engage in the business of buying, selling, dealing, or the tanning and dressing of raw furs, hides, or pelts of beaver, otter, fisher, marten, muskrat, mink, skunk, raccoon, opossum, wolf, lynx, bobcat, fox, weasel, coyote, badger, deer, or bear and the plumage, skins, or hides of protected game birds or game animals except as authorized by a license issued by the department under part 13. A license application shall be accompanied by a fee as follows:
(a) For any person who engages in the business of buying and selling raw furs, hides, and pelts of fur-bearing animals or the plumage, skins, or hides of protected game birds or game animals, the fee is $10.00.
(b) Each person in the business of manufacturing furs who buys raw pelts is a dealer, and the fee for each individual or agent who buys furs is, for a resident, $10.00 and, for a nonresident, $50.00.
(c) For any person who engages in the business of custom tanning or dressing of raw furs, the fee is $5.00. However, such a license does not authorize that person to buy or sell raw furs.
(2) Any person holding a fur dealer’s license under this part is entitled to buy furs, hides, pelts, and the plumage, skins, or hides, and parts thereof, of protected game birds and game animals that are legally taken.
(3) The department may designate the plumage and skin of those game birds and game animals that may not be bought or sold if it determines that such a prohibition will best serve the public interest. The plumage and skins, or parts of plumage and skins, of migratory game and nongame birds may be bought and sold only in accordance with federal law or rule.
(4) For the purposes of this part, “plumage” means any part of the feathers, head, wings, or tail of any bird.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
